Word: lets
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...Let's face it. Some states beg to be called backward...
With what little money they managed to raise, opponents crafted an ad to air during the Nebraska-Oklahoma football game. Because it featured a swastika, TV stations refused to let it run, thereby adding censorship to the list of legal discriminations gays in Nebraska share with Jews (and gays) in Nazi Germany. The spot opened with the state's motto, "Equality before...
...Christopher wants to let the Florida Supreme Court handle all election-related lawsuits and ask it to rule "whether hand counts now ongoing are appropriate under Florida law, and if so, what is the deadline for their completions." Christopher is also looking for a statewide standardization of all matters "chad." But his main point may have been to say that Harris's way of doing things, in lower courts, "would serve only to delay once again the counting of the votes...
...then again, Boies' last clear statement was that the Gore campaign's goal wasn't litigation, but "making sure every vote is counted." And with Palm Beach County still paralyzed by its own lawsuits (a seventh judge is finally looking at lifting the injunction to let the county send its results in) and sitting on all those double-punched Gore votes just yearning to breathe free, the road ahead could be long and winding indeed...
...extension of Florida's 5 p.m. Tuesday deadline for certifying county vote tallies in the state's election, former secretary of state James Baker appeared before reporters in Tallahassee and urged once more for a endgame that would "take this process out of the courts." The adjusted disarmament offer: Let the manual recounts continue - but only until the 5 p.m. deadline, and then use Friday's final number (absentee ballots included) as the deciding number. Both sides drop their lawsuits and settle...